摘要:
A heap of a material to be leached to recover a valuable metal from the material includes an electromagnetic heating system to generate heat in situ in the heap.
摘要:
A method of improving leach kinetics and recovery during atmospheric or above-atmospheric leaching of a metal sulfide is disclosed. A system for practicing the aforementioned method is also disclosed. Apparatus for practicing the aforementioned method is also disclosed. A new composition of matter which is formed by the aforementioned method, and which may be utilized in the system and apparatus is further disclosed. The new composition of matter may exhibit improved leach kinetics, and may have some utility in the semi-conductor arts, including uses within photovoltaic materials.
摘要:
Processes for the production of tantalum alloys are disclosed. The processes use aluminothermic reactions to reduce tantalum pentoxide to tantalum metal.
摘要:
A system and process for reclaiming nickel and cadmium from a feed source such as Ni—Cd batteries. The feed source is shredded to produce feed particles, screened to size the particles, magnetically separated to remove non-metallic materials, and induction heated to generate nickel and cadmium products.
摘要:
A manufacturing method of one dimension nano magnetic wires is provided. In the method, the one dimension nano magnetic wires having high magnetization and low coercive force are synthesized from a liquid by means of reduction with an applied magnetic field under normal atmospheric temperature and pressure. The one dimension nano magnetic wire is selected from the groups consisting of iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), and composites and an alloy thereof.
摘要:
A method of smelting copper includes: a generating step of generating blister and calcium ferrite slag from copper matte by charging the copper matte into a smelting furnace and oxidizing the copper matte; and a refining step of refining another blister from the calcium ferrite slag in an electrical furnace under a temperature condition of 1250 degrees C. to 1350 degrees C. and under a reductive atmosphere condition of oxygen partial pressure logPO2≦−9.3.
摘要:
A method for recovering platinum group elements comprises charging an oxide raw material entraining platinum group elements, copper oxide, solid carbonaceous reducing agent and flux into a closed electric furnace equipped with at least one electrode for heating material and a roof for substantially shielding material charged into the furnace from the exterior atmosphere. The charged material is melted and reduced to form a layer of molten metal under a molten slag layer and enrich platinum group elements in this molten metal. The oxide raw material, copper oxide, solid carbonaceous reducing agent and flux are prepared as powdery or particulate materials, premixed and then charged into the electric furnace. The heat-melted material in the furnace is allowed to stand at a temperature of 1200° to 1500° C. for at least 5 hours, with the molten metal containing platinum group elements then being discharged outside the furnace.
摘要:
The invention relates to arc-heating plasma reactors for simultaneous making of refractory, metal and non-metal material melt and sublimates having a high degree of a melt viscosity and can be used in cement, chemical industries and metallurgy. The aim of the present invention is to provide the increase of a performance of a furnace lining, the serviceability, a furnace capacity, a finished product quality, the decrease of a power supply, making and separation of associated binding agents, non-ferrous metals in the form of melts and sublimates. Said aim is attained that in the present plasma reactor-separator for a melt making comprising a cylindrical chamber, the hollow bar electrodes passing into a chamber through its upper lid but the elements are set into their cavities in the form of shelves or in the form of a screw, a hole for bringing in and bringing out of a melt, two coils encompassing the chamber and set one above the other throughout its height, a channel for bringing out of the lighter binding agent melt is located between the hole for a metallic melt bringing out in the back surface of the chamber and the lower coil, a raw furnace charge is brought in by means of four side feeders, through the channels, located in the chamber walls at angle of 90° on the same horizontal plane relatively each other in the upper part of the chamber over a melt surface resulting in a skull formation as cone-shaped slopes on a melt mirror, the heat-exchange granulating elements (granulator) for cooling, granulation and utilization of a heat of a clinker melt made as metallic on the inside water-cooled cylinders revolving on their axis in the opposites directions from each other.
摘要:
A fast quench reaction includes a reactor chamber having a high temperature heating means such as a plasma torch at its inlet and a means of rapidly expanding a reactant stream, such as a restrictive convergent-divergent nozzle at its outlet end. Metal halide reactants are injected into the reactor chamber. Reducing gas is added at different stages in the process to form a desired end product and prevent back reactions. The resulting heated gaseous stream is then rapidly cooled by expansion of the gaseous stream.
摘要:
Lead-contaminated soil and battery casings are remediated using a plasma arc furnace which pyrolyzes the soil and waste battery casings so as to form a vitrified slag and a combustible gas, respectively. The combustible gas along with volatilized lead (and other heavy metals which may be present) are transferred to, and used as a primary fuel by, a conventional smelting furnace. The volatilized lead that is entrained in the combustible gas is thus transferred to the recovery and environmental protection/control equipment associated with the smelting furnace. The soil, on the other hand, is converted into a non-toxic (i.e., according to the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure) vitrified slag by the plasma arc which may be crushed and used as a commercial material (e.g., roadway aggregate, asphalt filler material and the like) or simply transferred to a landfill where it poses no environmental threat.